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Author Joy Williams honored by Library of Congress

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NEW YORK — The Library of Congress awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Joy Williams, a fiction writer known for her spare prose and...

Nobelist Wole Soyinka to honor Henry Louis Gates at PEN gala

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NEW YORK — Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka will be attending this fall's PEN America literary gala, flying in from his native Nigeria to help...

‘The Night Watchman,’ Malcolm X biography win arts Pulitzers

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NEW YORK — One of the country’s most esteemed novelists, Louise Erdrich, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Night Watchman.” ...

French non-fiction author Carrere wins top Spanish award

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MADRID — French author Emmanuel Carrere, popular for his non-fiction books in a high literary vein, has been granted this year’s Spanish Princess of...

Fiction, memoirs, poems spring from 1,000-word challenge

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NEW YORK — A. Stella Oloye, a Washington, D.C-based writer working on an Afrofuturism novel, was at a low point this spring when she...

Rowling, Pilkey among authors mourning Scholastic CEO

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NEW YORK — J.K. Rowling is praising the longtime head of the U.S. publisher of her "Harry Potter” books as an ally and early...

Luiselli’s prize-winning novel responds to migratory crisis

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MEXICO CITY — Valeria Luiselli is pleased to have passed the libraries’ test with her first novel written directly in English, “Lost Children Archive”...

Richard Robinson, longtime Scholastic CEO, dead at 84

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NEW YORK — Richard Robinson, who as the longtime head of Scholastic Inc. presided over such bestsellers as J.K. Rowling's “Harry Potter” novels and...

David Diop wins International Booker Prize with WWI story

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LONDON — A harrowing but poetic tale of comradeship, colonialism and the horrors of war won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday. ...

Delaware student wins $65K literary prize

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CHESTERTOWN, Md. — A student from Delaware has won the nation’s largest undergraduate literary prize. ...